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Snapshots from Space History
UCL is the only UK host of a NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF). On top of this, it has a long tradition in astronomy, geology and planetary science.
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London - centric
London is a city of immense prosperity and power. But has it succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?
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The London Underground Rent Map: Where You Can't Afford to Live, by Stop
Jesus Hyde Park Corner, relax.
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Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Let Me Blow Your Mind
From the album "Hits the Hits" (2007)
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Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Kiss The Sky
From the album "Voices and Choices" (2007)
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The train that powers its station
Beneath London, a successful five-week experiment in reclaiming waste electricity could save millions of pounds each year — and make Tube riders a whole lot happier in the process.
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Adele - Rolling in the Deep
From the album '21' - 2010
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Glorious Posters From the Golden Years of the London Tube
In 1908, the very first Underground logo, known as a roundel, was introduced at St James’ Park station.
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Meet the new London Taxi
With a range-extended electric powertrain, the newly unveiled 2017 TX5 is a greener shade of black.
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The Little-Known Story Behind Britain’s Road Signs
If you think about it, traffic signs should be invisible. Not see-through invisible, but intuitively invisible; if they work like they’re supposed to, you won’t even realize you’re using them. That was the challenge put to Lock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert in 1958, when the British government hired the London designers to devise a new signage system for the country’s roads.
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Daniel Waples - Hangpan Solo
Daniel Waples is from London, he got his first HandPan in 2007, he supports himself as an independent musician whilst spreading the gospel of the HandPan
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The High-Class Chaos Engulfing One of London’s Wealthiest Neighborhoods
Mayfair, home of the 1 percent’s 1 percent, has seen a flare up of drama of all sorts in recent months. The Taubman family feud, which should come to a resolution at a multi-million-dollar Sotheby’s auction this week, is but one. By James Reginato.
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London’s Plague Pits Map Shows Where the Black Death Got Buried
Subterranean London is a crowded space. There's the London Underground, Joseph Bazalgette's sewer system, buried waterways like the River Fleet and the dead...
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25th November 1952 - Mousetrap opens in London
“The Mousetrap,” a murder-mystery written by the novelist and playwright Agatha Christie, opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The crowd-pleasing whodunit would go on to become the longest continuously running play in history, with more than 10 million people to date attending its more than 20,000 performances in London’s West End.
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Plague of 'iceberg houses' hits London's posh neighbourhoods
Barnes has a new tourist destination. It's a pile of rubble. Until last week, 26 The Terrace, London SW13, was a lovely Georgian house, just across the road from the pebbly banks of a quiet bend of the Thames, where rowers brave the late-autumn waters and joggers puff along the river paths.
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Harold Burdekin’s London Night (1934)
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The 19th-Century Tomb That Inspired London’s Iconic Telephone Box
When you step into one of London’s iconic red telephone boxes, you’re entering the architecture of a tomb.
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The City of London’s only true gin
The City of London set out the rules for this spirit 300 years ago – but today just one City distillery still makes it.
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The Graying Thieves Who Nearly Got Away With a Record Heist in London
On Friday nights for three years, they met over pints at the Castle, a pub in Islington, in North London. The four men were getting on in years, but they were not there just to talk about retirement plans or the aches and pains of aging. Experienced thieves with long criminal records, they had something far more pressing in mind: an audacious, career-topping heist they boasted the world would never forget.
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The death and life of the great British pub
Across the country, pubs are being shuttered at an alarming rate – scooped up by developers and ransacked for profit – changing the face of neighbourhoods and turning our beloved locals into estate agents, betting shops, and luxury flats. This is the story of how one pub fought back. By Tom Lamont.
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